Topic: Crontab

[pippin]

i have innstalled norman viruscontroll beside clamav
And have set up a cronjob for norman to update and scan folders,but everytime the cronjob goes to basic so i wonder if its something to do with updates ?

[CharlieBrady]

i have innstalled norman viruscontroll beside clamav
And have set up a cronjob for norman to update and scan folders,but everytime the cronjob goes to basic so i wonder if its something to do with updates ?

I don't know what "the cronjob goes to basic" means, and I guess other readers have the same problem. What exactly do you see which is not what you expect to see?

[cactus]

i have innstalled norman viruscontroll beside clamav
And have set up a cronjob for norman to update and scan folders,but everytime the cronjob goes to basic so i wonder if its something to do with updates ?

I guess you did modify the configuration file directly, but it is built from templates. All original templates are in the /etc/e-smith/templates folder. Modifications should be done by making a copy of the file to the /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/ directory.

After you have made your modifications you will have to expand your template and reload the services (or if you don't know which service, just do a reboot).

By using the template system changes you have made will be backed-up and will also stay after other configuration changes. For more details have a look here: Configuration file templates in the WIKI.

[pippin]

i have now copy the crontab to /etc/e-smith/templates-custom with the changes and have reboot the server.Is this the right thing to do?

[cactus]

i have now copy the crontab to /etc/e-smith/templates-custom with the changes and have reboot the server.Is this the right thing to do?

It is almost correct...
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• Make a copy of the file structure needed for the template in the /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/ folder (OK: As you did this)
• Make the neccesarry changes to the copied files (OK?: Not sure if you did that)
• expand the configuration files so the changes you made are reflected (make sure you use the path of the actual configuration file so not the copies in the template folder):
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  expand-template /etc/path/to/config/file(NOK: As it seems you have forgotten this step)
  
• To verify if your changes were made view the file
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  cat /etc/path/to/config/file
  
• If the configuration changes are reflected in the expanded configuration file then restart the neccessary services or just to be sure reboot the server to be sure.[/list:o]